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VOL. XXXV, No. 96
THE CLEVELAND STAR
SHELBY,
N.
C.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928. Published
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons
By mall, per year (In advance) $2.50
Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.0(
LATENEWS
Remains Hot.
Today'll North Carolina Weather
Report: Showers tonight and prob
ably Saturday morning. Not maph
change In temperature.
Up To Morrison.
News dispatches today state that
W. C. Wilkinson, Charlotte hnnkrr,
has informed Chairman O. M. Mull
that his name be withdrawn as a
prospective successor to Senator
Simmons as national committee
man. Mr. Wilkinson favors the ap
pointment of Ex-Governor Cameron
Morrison, who seems to be In line
for the appointment when it is
made August 24 by the state com
mittee, headed by Mull.
Old Songs Sell
Better In City
Than Jazz Airs
Buyers Of Records Prefer "River
Jordan" To "My Blue Heaven”
By 25 To One.
The youth of this so-called
Jazz-mad age may prefer to
shake, shimmy and shuffle to
“My Bine Heaven,” “A Good
Man Is Hard To Find," and
other sueh popular dance music,
but they are outnumbered by
the people who prefer to hear
"River Jordan," the “Virginia
Reel.” “Sldna Allen” and the
good, old songs of the good, old
days.
In fact, 25 phonograph records of
th° old songs—fiddle. monologue
and religious selections, are sold for
every record In the popular dance
record class.
Believe it or not, but those are
the figures as giver out at Pendle
ton's music store, where young and
old throng for their bit of music
out of heaven, or a saxaphone as
they prefer.
Just Think About It.
Gene Austin, the popular tenor
..singer, who is now vacationing at
/ Morehead City, this state, may not,
think so but the fellow who spoke
of the trials and tribulations of
"Sidna Allen" cn a phonograph disc
is far more popular in Shelby than
Gene with his own sweet, tenor
voice rolling out “My Blue Heaven.
Which doesn't mean that the
Jazzy records do not sell. They do
/’But more folks prefer the old pieces,
and more folks purchase them For
every flapper who comes in and
wants a record of "That's My Weak
ness Now" theer are three or four,
maybe a half dozen, older folks who
want "Life's Railway to Heaven,”
, or "Wonderful Grace.” And for
every shiek who wanders in to hear
"Something About a Rose there
are numerous elderly fellows who
would rather hear “Chickens Don't
Roost Too High For Me," "Arkan
sas Traveler." or “Hello, Central,
Give Me Heaven."
Unique and contrasting airs are
/■ heard about the record rooms of a
music store. From cne booth may
come “The Land Where I Never
Grow' Old." or an old square-dance
fiddle seelction, while in the next
booth a saxaphone may be screech
ing out the latest jazz agony as
some young thing twists, in sup
posed rythm, about the booth.
The Popular Airs.
Among the old pieces the best
f sellers are “River Jordan," “Won
derful Grace.” "Virginia Reel.”
"Arkansas Traveller, "Golden Slip
pers," “Life’s Railway to Heaven,”
"Frank Dupree," “John Henry,”
and "Chickens Don't Roost Too
JUgh For Me.” In the jazz class
tene Austin s "My Blue Heaven” is
?Ae rage, followed by “That’s My
' Weakness Now," "Just Like a
Melody Out of the Sky,” "A Good
, Man Is Hard To Find,” and “Some
thing About a Rose.”
Whittier's “Fox Chase” is cne of
the late day favorites for all ages
and types, while demand is already
being made, it is said for the latest
record of “Sidewalks of New York"
—For which, no doubt, A1 Smith is
to be blamed or praised.
There is a divided sentiment as to
the phonograph airs as Judged by
the sale of records in Shelby, but
the old selections easily outclass the
late day numbers.
Efird’s Force On
A Picnic Thursday
Efirds entire force with several
invited friends, enjoyed their an
nual picnic Thursday at Irene Park,
Gaffney. Leaving Shelby at 12:30
were: Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Earl and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lovelace
«nd family, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
and family. Mr. and Mrs. Forest
Bolin, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Spake,
Mrs. Fitzhugh Dodd, Mrs. Gene
Gamble, Misses Lura Smith, Clara
Hord, Ella Mauney, Maidie Glas
pie, Ray Ellis, Pauline Byers, Mol
lie Lovelace, Ruth Waldrop, Ethel
Bridges, May Turner. Louise Morri
son, Lunell McCraw, Sarah Caba
niss, Connie Jones, and Messrs.
Martin, Leonard and Wall.
After enjoying a bour/tful dinner
♦he crowd motored on to Love
spring where swimming was en
joyed.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Johnson and
daughter, Helen, of Atlanta, have
been visiting Mr. John A. Weaver on
East Marion street and other rela
tives of the city. They returned
home yesterday. n
Andrews Is Principal
Here; Teachers Named
Native O f Virginia
And Married. Twen
ty-Four New Teach
ers This Year.
Prof. Columbus Andrews, former
Granite Falls school superintendent,
will be. the new principal of the
Shelby high school this year, ac
cording to an announcement by the
city school board and Supt I. C.
Griffin. Mr Andrews, a married
man, is an experienced teacher and
a graduate with post degree work
at North Carolina university.
Along with the Andrews an
nouncement came a list of the
teachers for the entire city system
this year. The list by schools fol
lows:
YVashintgon School.
The faculty remains without
change. The school is to be con
gratulated upon the fact that it was
not necessary to make any change.
Marion School.
Mrs. Charles Hoey. Mrs. V. C. Ma
son. and Mrs. Harry Hudson have
announced their intention not to
teach this year. Miss Mary Crowell
of Forest City succeeds Mrs. Hoey;
Miss Oilie Moore of Boiling Springs
succeeds Mrs. Mason and Miss Ruth
Tilley-succeeds Mrs. Harry Hudson !
Miss Bernice_ Jones ’ of Laurens,!
South Carolina, has been added to
the faculty in order to take care of :
the crowded condition hi the pri- i
mary department of this school. In
addition to her class room work
Miss Janes will te.ach violin under
the direction of Mr. Sinclair wher
ever her services are required.
Jefferson School.
Miss Evelyn Dover and Mrs.. Ger
ald Morgan have announced their
intention not to teach this year.
Miss Annie Hamrick, of Shelby, has
been elected to succeed Miss Dover
and Miss Margaret Cooper of
Mayrsvllle. South Carolina, will suc
ceed Mrs. Morgan
Miss Anne Adams resigned of her
own accord to accept work else
where and Miss Madge DePriest, of
Shelby, has been elected to suc
ceed her. Miss Margaret Davis, of
Newberry, South Carolina, and Miss
Virginia Calhoun. Ninety Six, S. C,,
have been added to the faculty of
this school in order to take care of
the anticipated increased enroll
ment,
LaFayette School.
Mrs. Rafe King has announced her
intention not to teach this year and
will be succeeded by Miss Pearl
Tweed, of Weaverville.
■Graham School.
Miss Evelyn Wilkins, of Goldsboro
will succeed Mrs. Harbison who is
leaving the profession permanent
ly
Morgan School.
Miss Adeline Bostic, who is leav
ing the teaching profession, will be
succeeded by Miss Murriel Sutton,
of Live Oak, Florida. Miss Margaret
Pritchard and Miss Irene Chandler
are on a leave of absence for one
year and will be succeeded respec
tively by Miss Kathleen Nolan, of
Shelby, and Miss Nina Holt White
of Davidson. Miss Mildred Thomp
son has been transferred to the
high school to succeed Mrs. Jesse
Washburn, resigned as a teacher of
home economics. Miss Nancy Bag
well, Clinton, S. C., will succeed
Miss Thompson as home economic
teacher in this school. Mr. V. B.
Cooper has resigned to accept the
principalship of the Henrietta high
school.
High School.
Mr. Columbus Andrews, Frede
ricks Hall, Virginia, has been elect
ed to succeed Mr. S. G. Chappell.
Mr. Andrews has had the very best
of academic training, holding the
Master's degree from the University
of North Carolina. He has had very
successful experience as superin
tendent of schools at Granite Fails,
(Continued on page seven.)
Dies In Virginia
Rev. J. Alexander Beam, native
of Cleveland county and former
pastor of New Bethel Baptist church
who died a few days ago in Va.
REV. ALEX BEAM
DIES IN 1HIA
Noted Teacher And Preacher And
Native Of Cleveland Passes—
Brother And Sister Here
Telegrams were received here
Saturday morning telling of the
death of Rev. Alexander Beam who
died in Richmond, Va.
Mr. Beam was a native of Cleve
land county having been reared
near Lawndale, and is survived by
one sister. Mrs. M. A. Grigg, of
Shelby, and one brother,. Mr
David A Beam, of Route No. 6. He
was well known throughout the
state as a consecrated minister and j
active educational worker, until the J
failure of his health a few years I
ago. i
For a number of years he conduct-;
ed a preparatory school at Bethel i
Hill in Person county in addition to i
his ministerial work. There he in- |
cited more young men into the min- ;
istry than probably any other one j
man in the state.
As he gradually grew impaired
in health he was compelled
to give up his school and pastoral
charges. His county then elected
him to the office superintendent of
public schools. He filled this office
together with wife, who was formal
ly Miss Mary Lucas, of South Caro
lina, until about three years ago.
Mr. Beam frequently visited his
old home and returned each time
with increasing delight. He was
one of the speakers at the annual
Beam reunion on several occasions.
Funeral services and interment j
were held at Roxboro Baptist church
Sunday p. m. at 3 o'clock, w'here a '
vast throng of people filled the
church to overfolwing. The tremen- i
dous floral offering borne by forty
girls marked the love and esteem '
of his numerous friends and ac
quaintances. A number of ministers
from several different churches and
1 former school mates paid tribute to j
his noble life in words of praise and ■
appreciation. j
Rev. Beam is survived by his wife !
and four children. Dr. Hugh M.
Beam, of Roxboro, Attorney Gaither
Beam, of Louisberg. Mrs. Raymond
Bailey also of Louisburg. and Mrs.
Thomas Smith, of Richmond, Vir
ginia, at whose home he was visit
ing when death occurred. There are
also six grandchildren.
Those from Cleveland county at
tending 'the funeral were his broth
t er, David A. Beam and two chil
dren, Delia Elizabeth and David al
so D. A. Cline, of Lawndale, North
| Carolina.
This State Has High Birth
Rate And A Low Death Rate
Charlotte.—North Carolina ranks
among the first three states in the
country in regard to high birth rate,
said Dr. A. J. Crowell, president of
the state board of health, in dis
cussing the progress of health work
in the state.
North Carolina also has today the
lowest death rate since the days of
its first settlement. Dr. Crowell
added.
A new low record for deaths in
North Carolina was set last year
with the rate 11.3 per 1.000 of pop
ulation while 83,334 children were '
born during the year, a record of j
28.8 per 1.000 of population, ac
cording to Dr. Crowell.
Great Improvement.
Greater improvement has been
made in public health in this state
since 1910 than in any neighboring ,
state, he declared, basing his state
ment on statistics compiled by the
federal government. The death rate
in North Carolina in 1900 was ap
proximately 22 per 1,000 of popula
tion, he said, and while the death
rate of the entire country has been
reduced 35 per cent since 1900, the
reduction in North Carolina has
been approximately 50 per cent, ac
cording to Dr. Crowell.
The improvement in general
health conditions has been even
more remarkable than the general
development of North Carolina in
recent years in agriculture and in
dustry, declared Dr. Crowell. Hook
worm disease is now rare in the
state while malaria has practically
been eradicated and smallpox kills
less in a year in North Carolina
than the automobile kills in a week,
he said.
Straton Has Made
Similar Charges
About Officials
Had To Retract Charges Against
Judge In Norfolk Once, Smith
Fight Reveals.
Norfolk.—The Rev. Dr. John
Roach Straton, who has attacked
Gov. Smith, made similar charges
while he was pastor of the First
Baptist church in Norfolk, against
Judge O. L. Shackleford and muni
cipal officials, all of which he was
forced to retract when he was sued
for libel.
Dr, Straton preached a sermon
declaring Norfolk was filled with
houses of prostitution and other
forms of vice, and that authorities
were being paid to protect them. He
accused Judge Shackleford, then
Commonwealth attorney of being in
league with police who were receiv
ing protection money.
All this happened in February,
1919. and about the same time A. G.
Backus was convicted of bootleg
ging and sentenced to jail. Backus
was a friend of Dr. Straton and the
preacher petitioned Gov. Westmore
land Davis for a pardon. The gov
ernor refused a pardon unless it was
recommended by Shackleford. The
attorney declined to make the rec
ommendation and it was then that
Straton printed a circular accusing
Shackleford of being in cahoots with
the police, whom he charged with
protecting operators of vice houses.
Dr. Straton also wrote a book
which he sold for $1 per copy. This
book bore the title “Scarlet Sins of
Norfolk." He was summoned before
a grand jury and was unable to
substantiate a single charge he
made. He said “somebody on the
street" had told him about the al
leged conditions.
TWO GEfOUTOF
JAIL CATCH ONE
Negro Trusty Swings Onto Third
Prisoner Trying To"fcscape7
One Missing
George Pruett, one of the two,
white prisoners escaping from the
county Jail Wednesday, was caught
in a briar patch in the Ross Grove
section Thursday afternoon by Dep
uties Bob Kendrick and Harvey
Harrelson, and Policemen Stamey
and Cook.
The other prisoner, Loyd Lovelace,
is still at large. Pruett, who is held
in connection with robbing the
Columbus Beam home near Pros
pect church, and Lovelace, held over
an auto w’reck, got away just before
noon Wednesday. They were scrub
bing in the jail corridor when in
some manner the main corridor
door lock was picked, and they slip
ped downstairs and out the kitchen
door.
Negro Boy Helps
A third prisoner, a man by the
name of Ivey, held on an auto lar
ceny charge, started to escape with
the others, but a youthful negro
trusty, D. D. Moore, made a flying
tackle at the kitchen door and held
Ivey until others came to his aid
Lived On Apples
When Pruett was cornered in a
briar patch Thursday he told of
ficers that he hadn’t had anything
to eat since Thursday except apples
he had picked up. He slept in the
woods north of Shelby Wednesday
night, he said.
Reepsville Native
Has An Old Wallet
Hickory.—An interesting relic in
the form of a sheepskin wallet is
in the possession of George C. War
lick. of Hickory, who was presented
with the old leather piece by his
father, H. D. Warlick, of Reepsville,
Lincoln county.
The wallet was 100 years old Wed
nesday and was once the property of
Maxwell Warlick. who lived at War
lick’s Mill near Reepsville, where
the ancestral Warlick home stands.
On the bajck of the wallet is
written in script, "Maxwell Warlick,
August 8, 1828.” The writing is
still legible and gives evidence that
the money carried was well preserv
ed during the past century. It *s
filled with Confederate money, of
various denominations, aggregating
a total of nearly $2,000.
Bible Classmen To
Asheville On Sunday
I Max Gardner, teacher of the
men's Bible class of the First Bap
tist church Shelby will teach his
class and the men's Bible class of
the First Baptist church, Asheville,
at Asheville on Sunday morning
and the Shelby men will leave here
at 7 o'clock Sunday morning Those
who care to go but do not have
conveyance are asked to notify S. A.
McMurry, Paul Webb, A. M. Ham
rick, Robert Doggett or Griffin
Smith. Those who have cars with
vacant scats, are asked to report at
the church Sunday morning at, 7.
BROTHER OLDEST
SHELBY NATIVE
DIES IN TEXAS
Jake Rudasill, Who Left Here 50
Years Ago With C. C. Blan
ton, Is Dead.
The older brother of Shelby's
oldest native born citizen died Mon
day afternoon at Meridian, Texas,
where he has lived for more than a
half century, according to messages
received here by relatives.
Monday evening, Mr. E. A. Ruda
sill, the oldest person now living
here who was born in Shelby, was
notified that his brother, Mr. Jake
Rudasill, passed in a hospital there
at 1:50 in the afternoon. Funeral
services were held there Tuesday.
Was A Banker.
In 1864, Jake Rudasill, then 20
years old. left Shelby in company
with Mr. C. C. Blanton, now presi
dent of the First National bank and
the Union trust banking chain, for
Meridian where they entered the
banking business. After a number
of years in Texas Mr. Blanton re
turned to Shelby to take charge of
his father’s banking business, but
Mr. Rudasill, who was well known
to all the older citizens of Shelby
and the county remained in Texas
until his death.
His last visit here according to
his brother was something like 20
years ago when their father died.
The only other visit made back
home was when the old Cleveland
Springs hotel burned. Mr. Rudasill
continued in the banking business
at Meridian until six or eight years
ago w'hen he retired due to failing
health.
He is survived by his wife. two
brothers—E. A., of Shelby, and Lee,
of Dallas, and one sister. Mrs.
Amanda Harrington, of Marcella,
Michigan.
About eight months ago the three
brothers met at Meridian for their
first meeting together in 26 years.
While with each other they were in
an automobile crash and the in
juries received by the elder brother,
it is thought, hastened his death.
Curtain Goes Up
Despite A Death
In Show On Here
Man Killed In Wreck Near Gaffney
Was To Have Performed Here
Wednesday Night
One of the oldest and most strict
ly observed rules in the show game
is “the show must go on, regardless,'
and Wednesday night in a local
theatre a group of beautiful .chorus
girls sang thefr light-hearted ditties
and the performance carried
through despite the fact that a
member of the troupe lay cold' in
death at the time.
Tuesday afternoon E. W. Wilson,
a member of Jay Mason’s show
troupe, “Fashion Flirts,’’ left Gaff
ney for Shelby in his high-powered
car. Wednesday night the troupe
was to open in a local theatre. The
big car left the road, turned turtle,
and the 24-year-old actor was pin
ned under the car, fatally injured.
Early Wednesday morning he died
in a Gaffney hospital. While Gaff
ney officials sought to learn his
identity his fellow-actors here pre
pared for the curtain Wednesday
night. During the day they heard
of Wilson’s tragic death, but Wed
nesday night the show went on.
Many of the Shelby folks in the
audience never dreamed that be
hind some of the laughter and fun
they heard on the stage was sad
ness. The oldest rule in the show
game was being carried out.
Tragedy may reign in a show
man's heart, but his “house" must
be made to laugh and never cry.
The "Fashion Flirts” gave a good
| performance. Near the end of the
; show Mason informed the theatre
goers that the fellow- w-ho was to
have played the messenger boy role
had been killed.
Yesterday Wilson's body was ship
ped to his old home at Bristol,
Tenn. His show- goes on, as he. as
a typical, loyal showman. w-ould
have desired.
Auto Crash Draws
Big Crowd To Scene
Silas Cade, colored employee of
the Cleveland Oil company. was
lacerated about the face and Clar
ence Weaver, white employee of the
same firm slightly bruised about
noon today when the coupe in which
they were riding turned over on S.
LaFayette street.
The car, which belonged to Joe
Turner, bookkeeper of the firm, was
being driven by Cade at the time of
the wreck, it is said. The smash and
the ambulance which hurried to the
scene drew quite a large crowd. The
cuts about the colored man's face
were treated at a physician's office
uptown, it is said, and neither is
thought to have suffered serious
injury.
Hoover Campaign Leaders Confer
I)r. Hubert Work, director of Herbert Hoover’s presidential cam
paign, is pictured here on the left with James Good of Chicago, who
has accepted the western managership of the Hoover-Curtis cam
paign. Good was manager of Hoover's pre-convention activities.
Democrats Will Win
Is Opinion Of Mull
Anti-Smith Feeling But Scarcity Of
Republican!!. Must Beat
Workers.
(Tom Bast in Greensboro News.)
Raleigh. Aug. 9.—State Democra
tic Chairman Odus M. Mull, con
cluding the sixth of his congres
sional district conferences with
Democratic leaders at Wilson today,
was back full of fight and joy, for
he is yet to find that congressional
district which is going to flop this
fall.
Mr. Mull has gone through the
ninth and tenth, home folks, the
first, second, third, and sixth. The
tenth flopped alternately in the old
day, but it has been very solid since
1916. The ninth has given no trou
ble since Mr. Mull, Max Gardner,
Clyde Hoey and Judge Yates Webb
left their nurses’ arms. There is not
even a suggestion of trouble in the
first, second, third and sixth.
Anti-Smith Feeling Won’t Hurt.
Of course there is a vast amount
of feeling against Smith in these
eastern districts which have , such
Republican vote. If all the Demo
crats in all of those counties re
mained away from home there
would still be hardly enough Repub
licans to vote a majority. The dif
ficulty has been right there. The
Democrats vote furiously in the
primaries and shuck corn or pick
cotton on election day.
In the two western and the four
eastern districts Mr. Mull finds
among the well wishers of the party
a great desire to go to it. He has a
fighting organization. So at the end
of his first six conferences he gives
out the word that the Republicans
will get no congressman from those
districts.
The Republican Task.
To beat Mull and his organiza
tion the Republican, greater be
lievers still in the machine than are
the Democrats, must get more than
10,000 election day workers. The
present plan of the state chairman
is to have at least two good work
ers at every polling place in North
Carolina. The very least force for
this duty would be 3,600 but that
wont be a starter. There will be
nearer ten, volunteers and all. In
the eastern counties the Democrats
do not vote. It is not necessary.
Often the fifth district polls a big
ger Republican vote than three of
the eastern districts tally for both
sides. And Republicans and Demo
crats in the fifth will make four or
five eastern districts. The purpose
of the workers is to get those stay
at homes. If the first district votes
15,000 Democratic, it will be worked
with a view to getting 30.000 this
fall. The votes are there and the
Democrats will have the way to
carry them to the polls. Then with
the east polling 50,000 more votes
than is its wont the state ticket will
go overwhelmingly Democratic so
that there will not be the slightest
danger to the state ticket, Mr. Mull’s
plans contemplate.
Must Beat a Worker.
But they must beat a worker.
They have to hire more automo
biles, interest more men and women,
and out-talk more Democratic ora
tors than Mull can put into the
field. The Democrats have 25,000
men and women who are not will
ing to turn the state over. This
man Mull is the workingest human
being in North Carolina. And he
has six tenths of his force at it now.
Horace Easom Sings
Before Kiwanis Club
Mr. Horace Easom, educational
and music director of the First
I Baptist church delighted the Ki
| wanis club last night with a num
: ber of vocal selections He sang
“Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride,"
which was followed by two negro
spirituals joined in by the whole
club. Mr. Easom was accompanied
at the piano by Miss Bertha Bostic.
Charles A: Burrus presented gold
Kiwanis emblems to the members
of the club who had a perfect at
tendance during the first half of the
year.
SKIES TO BE LIT WITH
SHOOTING STARS AUG. 11
The biggest free show of the year
may be seen August 11. says Weath
er Meterologist Kimball. The an
nual display of shooting stars is
due that night, w'ith scores dashing
through space at the rate of 50
miles per second and up. It will be |
seen best after midnight.
Beam Interests
Plan Abattoir
According to a business an
nouncement today D. A. Beam
and five sons are planning the
erection of a $50,000 a abattoir
and packing plant in Shelby.
No details of the proposed
slaughtering and packing
plant were made public by
Mr. Beam, who gave out the
announcement.
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‘CycloneMack’Refuses To Take
His Pulpit Into Political Row
Raleigh Committee Tries In Vain
To Get Attack From
I’ulpit.
Raleigh.—It is not a minister’s
place to talk and preach about poli
tical campaigns, in the opinion of
the Rev. Baxter McLendon, evange
list, who is holding a six weeks' re
vival in the city auditorium of Ra
leigh.
Approached by a committee of
church men and women upon his
arrival here, the evangelist, known
as “Cyclone Mack," was urged to
preach a sermon about Governor
Smith of New York.
His Answer, “No.”
“No,” was his answer. “I have
been preaching up and down this
country of ours, from coast to coast
ever since I was converted to Jesus
years ago. It is not for a minister of
the gospel to preach on political
subjects. Why should I?”
The committee then suggested to
Mr. McLendon that today was such
a good psychological time to deliver
such a sermon.
“I know nothing about the psy
chology of the issue,” replied the
evangelist. “I am preaching straight
forward gospel of Jesus Christ.
Raps Prejudice.
“Prejudice Is what’s ruining the
country and people today, anyhow,"
he added. “Everywhere we find pre
judice. People’s minds, including
those of ministers and bishops, are
filled with prejudice. If we don’t get
rid of it, something terrible is going
to come over us,"
Him buck
HOEJ IN CHE
FOII01 SMITH
Gets Letters From Five In One Day.
95 Percent Messages
Boost.
Of the 424 letters received so
far by Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, con
cerning his campaign for Gov.
A1 Smith, only 22 of the letters
have criticised the Shelby law
yer for supporting the Demo
cratic presidential candidate.
This was made known today by
Democratic leaders in response
to a rumor that Mr. Hoey was
being flooded with critical let
ters.
The figures above snow that 93
per cent of the massages received
praise the stand while only about
five percent criticise the Smith
support. This, according to Mr.
Hoey, is approximately typical of
any campaign. "A man cannot take
an out-and-out stand in any poli
tical campaign and not draw any
criticism,’ he said.
Ministers Write.
In one day, Wednesday. Mr. Hoey
received letters from five North
Carolina ministers, all of whom
endorsed his opening speech for
Smith, and indicating that they
would support the Democratic ticket
throughout in the fall election.
Four Denominations.
These letters came from minis
ters of four Protestant denomina
tions—two Baptist, one Methodist,
one Presbyterian, and one Episco
palian rector.
What One Wrote.
One of the Baptist ministers
wrote as follows:
“I am a Baptist preacher, but am
not afraid of the Democratic nomi
nee, as it seems many of my breth
ren are. I am a Democrat from my
head to my heels. I know something
of Republican misrule in North
Carolina and In the nation, and,
therefore, I do not feel disposed to
lend them a helping hand. I shall
not. I mean to vote as I have voted
for the past 48 years. If I shall live
until November 6 I shall cast a solid
Democratic ballot because I believe
in Democratic principles and expect
to support them to my dying days.”
The letter was closed with a hope
ful statement for a glorious Demo
cratic victory in November.
FOOTBALL SEASON
HERE NEXT MONTH
Coach Morris Will Be Minus Many
Stars. Gloomy About
Prospects.
With the thermometer dangling
around 95 it isn’t an easy thing to
think of football, but Casey Morris,
down at his fruit and drink stand,
is already worrying over the 1928
edition of the Shelby high eleven.
Prospects are such as to bring on
worry, considering that three
fourths of a star backfield will be
missing this year along with a good
portion of the fighting little line of
last year.
Just when Coach Morris wfl! start
his squad to work he does not know
yet, but it will likely be about the
8th of September or a week or so
before school starts.
Missing stars will include Laymon
Beam, all-state back; Ed Harris,
veteran kicker and 1927 captain;
Bill Grigg, sturdy little center; Vir
gil McSwain, fleet back, and Buck
Coble, hefty lineman, along with
Charles Hunt, who has joined the
! navy, and several others,
i Beam is undecided where he will
enter State or Wake Forest college,
and Harris may either go to State
or Citadel, the latter school being
the selection, it is understood of J.
L. Suttle, another back. Where Mc
Swain will enter college is not
known, but Coble will likely go to
Boiling Springs for another year of
prep work before entering another *
school.
As a nucleus for a backfield Mor
ris will have Zeno Wall, quarter;
Rooster Bridges and Mud Poston,
half backs, and Floyd Cline full
back. His forward wall will be built
around Milky Gold, flashy end, and
Big Joe Singleton, all-state tackle.
Quite a number of promising
youngsters are expected to come up
from the second squad and grade
elevens.
Hickman Will Hang
On October 19, Said
Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 9.- Wil
liam E. Hickman today was order
ed hanged at San Quentin peniten
tiary on October 19 for the slaying
of Marion Parker. Judge Douglas
Edmonds overruled nine defense ob
jections, before setting the second
hanging date for the youthful kid
naper, who slew the 12-year-old
school girl here last December,